The CL. Psalmes of David in Meeter. : With an exact kalendar, also morning & evening prayers..
Bruce, Hamilton,former owner.StEdNL
Lowndes, William Thomas,1798?-1843,former owner.StEdNL
Edinburgh, : Printed by James Bryson, and are to bee sold at his shop, a little above ye kirk-style at the signe of the golden angel.,
1640..
Includes an index to the psalms entitled: A table for the whole number of the Psalmes, and how they shall be found.
Aldis, H.G. Scotland,
ESTC
STC
The front pastedown has the pencil note "Hamilton Bruce". The recto of the front free endpaper has a pasted-on slip with the ink inscription "This Edition of the Psalms was sold at £4..4 plain binding / Lowndes". This is supposedly the bibliographer William Thomas Lowndes.
A binding of non-hallmarked thin-gauge silver which overlaps the endpapers. The silver binding is decorated with a design of birds and flowers. The leaf edges are gilt and are decorated with a stamped design of dots and crosses. The binding is most probably contemporary as silver bindings decorated with birds and flowers were being produced by British craftsmen during the seventeenth-century. There are differing opinions as to where the binding may have been fabricated. Some experts suggest that the binding is Dutch or German (perhaps a luxury binding for a member of the Scottish reformed communities in the Low Countries?), and some suggest that the style is more likely to be British.